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Turbo-folk is a subgenre of Serbian contemporary pop music that initially developed during the 1990s as a fusion of techno and folk. The music glorified the lavish lifestyle of personalities such as Željko Ražnatović (a.k.a. "Arkan"), who were allowed to proliferate during the rule of Slobodan Milošević .
Rodoljub Vulović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Родољуб Вуловић; born on 1 May 1955), more commonly known by his stage name Roki Vulović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Роки Вуловић ), is a Bosnian Serb folk singer and songwriter. He is often described as a turbo-folk singer and is known for his Serbian nationalist songs. [ 1] He is best ...
Grand Production. Darko Lazić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Дарко Лазић, born on 13 October 1991) is a Serbian turbo-folk singer. Born in the south Vojvodina village of Brestač, he rose to prominence as the winner of the fourth season of the televised singing contest Zvezde Granda in 2009. [1] His debut album was released the same year under ...
Južni Vetar ( Serbian Cyrillic: Јужни Ветар, "South Wind") is a Bosnian-Serbian music band famous for recording with many famous folk, pop-folk and turbo-folk singers from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The band was founded by Miodrag M. Ilić (nickname Mile Bas), an experienced musician from Leskovac, a town in southern Serbia ...
Sinan Sakić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Синан Сакић; 13 October 1956 – 1 June 2018) [1] was a Serbian pop-folk singer. Sakić first reached massive popularity as a member of the Yugoslav turbo-folk band, Južni Vetar ( Southern Wind ). He also went on to have a successful career as a solo artist. Sakić was one of the most successful ...
Brena is also often credited with creating the turbo-folk genre with her first two albums Čačak, Čačak (1982) and Mile voli disko (1982). [ 2 ] Lepa Brena grew up in Brčko , Bosnia and Herzegovina, but has lived in Belgrade , Serbia since 1980, where she started her career.
He often, if not always used rap music combined with folk music parody and political and social satire, although he doesn't fit into the conventional rap music category because he went beyond the style. He also coined the term "turbo folk", though he was one of its greatest enemies. He is still a cult personality in the ex-Yugoslav territories.
The klapa music is a form of a cappella singing that first appeared in littoral Croatia during the middle of the 19th century. [3] The word klapa is derived from a word in slang Italian spoken in Trieste at the time. It refers to "a group of people" and the singing style traces its roots to liturgical church singing.